Olive

#928b4b

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for olive, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Olive falls in the yellow band, deep and soft. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #928b4b, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#928b4b

RGB146, 139, 75

HSL54, 32%, 43%

HSV54, 49%, 57%

CMYK0%, 5%, 49%, 43%

Lab57.16, -6.69, 34.95

XYZ22.36, 25.08, 10.32

Decimal9603915

Web safe#999933

Pantone4505 C

Shades of olive

#857f45 #79733e #6c6738 #605b31 #534f2b #474324 #3a371e #2d2b17 #211f11 #14130a

Tints of olive

#a49c54 #afa864 #b9b276 #c2bc88 #cbc69a #d4d0ac #dddabd #e7e4cf #f0eee1 #f9f8f3

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#4b5292 Analogous#92674b Analogous#76924b Triadic#4b928b Triadic#8b4b92 Split complementary#4b7592 Split complementary#684b92

Olive in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 5, 49, 43.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #928b4b on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 49 43

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 49 49

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Olive in css

Copy #928b4b straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #928b4b; }
.text { color: #928b4b; }
.border { border: 2px solid #928b4b; }

How olive looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Olive and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #928b4b against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #928b4b against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #928b4b sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around olive? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn olive into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #928b4b and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from olive, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #928b4b are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.